MOUNTING THE WILTON BULLET VISE

[@normtheteacher5485]

Happy birthday. Three reasons to use soft metal hammers: 1. Less impact damage to the punch. 2. Soft metals will obturate to the shape of the top of the punch and grab it better resulting in less deflection of the hammer when the impact angle is off from square which it probably will be when punching free hand. 3. Soft metals won't spark if working around flammable materials.

[@jimc4731]

Add, the blow will not tend to bounce but transfer the energy into the punch, thus obviating a movement of the punch off the mark and double punching🤣 Now which mark to use JIM 🤔

[@normtheteacher5485]

@@jimc4731 Good point.

[@thomaslawry5238]

This gentleman is spot on!

[@thomaslawry5238]

Also "soft" hammers don't mushroom the hammer end of the transfer punch.

[@fredohnemus7685]

Happy birthday! Nine years from now I will still nine years behind you. May your health remain good.

[@4SafetyTraining]

Happy birthday

[@Siskiyous6]

Happy Birthday Mr Pete, thank you for all the education. You are America's shop teacher!

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[@amundsen575]

Wilton Bullet of course!

[@NBCRGraphicDesign]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Peterson!

[@michaeljohnson5881]

Happy birthday, mr. Pete. Your knowledge is a treasure for us all to enjoy. Hope you have many more to come.

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@pilgrimm23]

this man is a NATIONAL treasure!

[@oddshot60]

Happy Birthday Mr Pete. I turn 72 in October ... and you are an inspiration to me. Thank you so much for all you do.

[@mrpete222]

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[@veejaybomjay8145]

Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy!! Happy Bday Mr, Pete wishing you many more. Favorite vise Classic Acme.

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[@bertjankosters]

Congratulations Master Pete!

[@dalebennett8169]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete.

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[@donmittlestaedt1117]

Happy Birthday youngster. There are people older than you, you know. I'm one of them. Who you kidding? The last vise? You are addicted. There are many more vises in your future. A junky never has enough. In fact, that is why I have watched you for so many years. I'm hooked too. Thanks for the fix.

[@mrpete222]

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[@tarz9386]

LOOKS GOOD. I like Wiltons and Parker.

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[@gregggoodwill9391]

Happy birthday Mr.Pete Another great video. My favorite vise is my old Reed vise.

[@paulterry7421]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete!

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[@Mad-Duk_Machine_Werkes]

I have (4) different FPU-Bison vices from Poland - The front jaw is fixed and the rear one slides of Dovetails - Problem is, Bubba usually owned them and you have to repair broken dovetails...... Still love them

[@mrpete222]

I just saw two vices like that when I visited Jimmy’s motor rebuilding in a recent video. I remember when his dad bought those vases in the 60s and showed them to me. I was shocked that The rear jaw moved

[@blondin07]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Pete.

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[@EVILDR235]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Pete.

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[@noneofabove5586]

Happy birthday Mr Pete.

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[@stevenhavener7327]

Happy Birthday Professor Peterson !!!!!! thank you for all you do , best regards Steve

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Thank you

[@petemclinc]

Happy 79th B- Day mrpete! Keep on keeping on!

[@jameslezak7882]

Happy Birthday Mr Pete! You're looking great for 79! I hope I'm as spry as you at 79! My first vise I received for Christmas 1972, a 5"Craftsman. I still use it regularly. Decent vise for $99 dollars, big money for 1972. My dad was so impressed with it, that 2 years later I got him one for Christmas. $199 just 2 years later, but still a quality vise, back when Craftsman products were still quality tools. I inherited it when my dad passed. Both are well mounted and used regularly! I have a 3.5" Wilton bullet vise, my go to because of its handier, smaller size. Found it while rummaging thru an old shed that had fallen down. What a prize! 7-69 stamped on key! Another great video, and as usual, thanks for your time and sharing! 👍😎✌️

[@matthewlee8917]

Happy 79th Mr. Pete! Just finishing up a vise refresh myself.

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[@LostMountainRestoration]

Happy Birthday. You're doing fine. Thanks for all you do and best regards.

[@kevinbaird9763]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete.....and many more to come. Good video!

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[@4speed3pedals]

Happy Birthday Lyle!!!!

[@jimc4731]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY you young whipper snapper! 💥 Keep up the good work! JIM 🥰

[@bh.boilers]

A very happy birthday to you Mr. Pete, the overwhelming vise brand in Australia is the Dawn brand. Ray.

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[@100yojimbo]

Happy birthday Mrpete hope you had a nice birthday. And great video as always 👍👍

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[@michaelquinlan6978]

Happy Birthday Mr Pete!!

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[@juansimon5802]

Happy Birthday Mr Pete

[@MegaBCAD]

Happy birthday from Western Australia Over here we only really have one Vice worth owning it’s a dawn I have one in every size in a engineers style an offset and few drill press vices and a post vice in all I have over 20 Different vices P.s I don’t a have a problem I have a Collection

[@dannywakeman5212]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete🎂

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[@pilgrimm23]

Lyle: I used a similar solution mounting a reloading press to a bench. After about 1000 rounds reloaded, it has worked like a champ. Thank you Sir; you show how to do the work. I did my work on a Horror Frought Drill press. I am about 10 years your junior. Happy B-Day Mr Pete. You have taught me... a boat load...

[@pilgrimm23]

by the way, that Wilton is GORGEOUS!!!!

[@mrpete222]

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[@paulhunt598]

I prefer Wilton vises, but also have a fine Parker and a fine Ridged. I gave a nice Yost to a son-in-law that needed a good vise and I didn't have bench space then for the Yost. I prefer to drive my punches and chisels with a bronze faced dead blow by Snap-On. No mushrooming, no skidding and no bounce. Snap-On varies their punch and chisel hardness over the length of the tool. Starrett inserts hardened tool material into the softer knurled and shaped handle. Both methods make these brands my favorite. I have used these brands successfully for 40 years and can only recall breaking or bending one tool. I can't say the same for my other premium brands.

[@larry400]

You have enough vises that it could be considered a vice by those that don’t understand your love of vises. Happy Birthday! Finally hitting your prime years.

[@mrpete222]

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[@uxoriousone6834]

Happy Birthday!

[@karljacobson1575]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete. You get wiser with age!! Have a good one...

[@davidstansbury3204]

Happy Birthday 🎉. You are the vice man, you give good advice. As always thank you for your time and knowledge

[@mrpete222]

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[@dougpersell8776]

Happy Birthday thanks i enjoy and can relate to your projects .

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[@phillipjones3342]

Wishing you the happiest of birthdays Mr. Pete and thank you for all of your knowledge sharing by the way I’m 72 and you have more initiative than I

[@joko7456]

Happy birthday mr Pete

[@guataco]

Happy birthday. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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[@greatvaluewalmart]

Happy late birthday sir, thanks for doing what you do

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[@jdavidkatz]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Pete. Excellent video. You are a national treasure.

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[@ohmbug10]

Happy birthday Mr. Pete! Good idea mounting the vice that way.

[@jacquespats2128]

Happy B day. may there be more videos and happy 'teach machining' days. besides your teaching videos which i (51)thoroughly enjoy and learn from often, there is only 1 other machine shop video maker whom provide the same help (mostly milling and lathe work) and helped me alot with machining in what i need to do for myself

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much, I am glad you like the videos

[@nbwoodwinds3065]

Happy birthday Mr Pete!

[@daviddauphin838]

Happy Birthday and many more.

[@edl5074]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY nice work as usual !!

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[@bobcollins3762]

I recently purchased a Reed 106 at the Brimfield flea market in July. After having several Colombian, Parker and a couple of Wilton vises, I now feel that the Reed is my favorite vise company. Great video Mr Pete, thank you for your wisdom and sharing it with us!!!!!!

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[@mikebarton3218]

Happy birthday Mr. Pete !! We need to do something very special for you a year from now 👍🍾🎂

[@mrpete222]

You mean if I’m still around?

[@ianmills669]

Happy birthday from South Australia Lyle! 79 years young and still an inspiration!!!

[@gregnoname3707]

“I think this is a waste, I don’t know why I’m doing it” is something I say practically every I work on a project.

[@Duckfarmer27]

Thanks for the birthday present Lyle - I'm 73 today. LOL Happy Birthday to you - and good Saturday morning with a good video.

[@mrpete222]

Happy 73

[@ericcorse]

I guess my favorite vise is a Wilton since i grew up with one and have one now. I also added a Starrett but haven't used it much. Happy belated birthday.

[@johnquinn3899]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr Pete !!!

[@Kris_at_WhiteOaksFarm]

Wish I'd had a shop teacher like you, way back when. I was always college bound, but I never fit that mold. Shop/trades would have been a better direction. As it turned out, I was able to find a path/career in Gardening/Horticulture. Retired now, and puttering in my shop, metal and woodworking. Happy Birthday Mr. Pete!

[@pilgrimm23]

me too

[@johnfriend240]

Wow, I just sold a bench lathe so I could have a bench in my shop and mount for the first time my Dad's Columbian 504M vise on the corner. The bench has 2" square tube all around and I was thinking I had to mount the vise inboard more than I'd like. Now I know how to do it! Thanks Mr. Pete!!!

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[@peteengard9966]

Happy birthday Mr. Pete. And hopefully many more. I love the Reed vises with the lip that butts on the front of the bench. Thank you.

[@michaelboyle1983]

Happy birthday and God bless you!

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[@tjr4744]

More genius work from the birthday boy ... Happy Birthday Mr Pete !! :)

[@johnmccrane1660]

Happy Birthday, Mr Pete. I would have marked the holes for a wilton and then any other holes as vise holes. Also I use fender washers up against the wood side to spread the holding force. Soft faced hammers won’t mushroom the punch.

[@TAWPTool]

Happy belated Birthday Mr. Pete!

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[@emasbury]

Happy B-Day Mr. Pete.

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[@christurley391]

Happy birthday. Thanks for the video.

[@Raymond.Butler]

Happy 79th, Mr. Pete. Pleasure learning from you.

[@brianbowman5402]

Happy Birthday Vice Man

[@llapmsp]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete. Thank you for what you do.

[@josephpetito1351]

Got one of those Wiltons in the classroom for twenty five years--indestructible

[@imknot]

Happy birthday Mr Pete. I have always worked with what ever vice I had at hand, I couldn't tell you what brand they were, I didn't care. Now that I have my own work shop I have acquired too many vices but I have a 4" Wilton bullet vice and a 6" Wilton bullet vice The 6 inch is a monster. they are both bolted to a short 4'6" X 4'6" bench that has a 1 5/16" steel top on it. I don't know where the bench originally came from but I have had it for most of my life. What a work horse of a bench. I drilled and tapped the holes that mount the vises. And yes I did overhang the vice so long items will miss the bench top. I am also saddened when a vice is improperly mounted. I thought maybe you would have drilled and tapped the plate so it could have been bolted from the bottom the same as the vice was mounted. Wonderful video Mr Pete. Thank you

[@thomascarle4124]

Happy Birthday, Sir. You are a tremendous inspiration to me. Thanks

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[@Hank_Snow]

Happy Bday Mr. Pete! Just last night I started prepping an old old tool stand which has a large round cast base to use for my recently acquired Wilton. Very timely video Sir. Have to find another for a baby Prentiss Bulldog.

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[@davidpidgeon7320]

Happy Birthday. I got a few years on you. This was a great video. Keep it up. Gundoctor

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Thank you David

[@ottomakers]

The alignment pin is a great trick for when it really matters. Good workmanlike practice in casual shop projects pays off.

[@sunriseboy4837]

Well called.

[@peterhaan9068]

Happy Birthday from a fellow doddering old fool. Henry you are one very lucky grandson!

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[@dalemcinnes1834]

Hi Mr. Pete , liked the video and would like to say the reason you use the brass or copper hammer is to transfer more hitting power to your punch. At least that is why I like using them and hopefully that is why you like using them. Dale in Canada 🇨🇦

[@2jz4me25]

Happy birthday Mr. Pete! Absolutely love you and your channel, sir.

[@kennyshipman7136]

Happy birthday and thanks for all your videod

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[@franksmodels29]

Nothing better than having morning coffee with Mr.Pete, Happy Birthday my friend 🎉🎉🎂🎉🎉

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[@elsdp-4560]

Thank you for sharing. Enjoyed.👍👀

[@larrywalker3137]

Well let me be one to wish you a happy birthday and tell you that I enjoy your videos very much keep them coming

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@adamgarrison4400]

Wilton all the way and Happy birthday.

[@Unrivaledanime]

Happy Birthday Teach love your videos

[@carolynbatta9525]

You are the best…forget the rest !

[@mrpete222]

Thank you very much

[@garthbutton699]

My favorite is the Columbian,thanks for the video🤗😎🤗😎

[@garthbutton699]

Happy Birthday you have something on the way

[@stevewilliams2498]

Happy birthday Lyle

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[@bobbyw9046]

Mr. Pete, All I can say is that I have had my USA made Wilton 5.5" vise mounted in my workbench for almost 40 years now - so I guess it has served me well - as I have no plans to replace it. There may be better vises out there, but I've never had the impetus to really look. The only other vises I've owned was when I was younger and could only afford small and cheap vises. I never had a Chinesium vise (never will) but I did have some small cheaper USA made ones when I was a teenager. There are very few USA made high quality vises made today and if I was in the market for a new vise or a second one, I'd more than likely buy a gently used one from yesteryear.

[@batch5626]

Happy Birthday Mr. Pete! You da man..

[@angelramos-2005]

Happy birthday Sir.Good work and very nice yellow strap clamps in your milling machine.Thank you.

[@67L-88]

Nicely done my favorite part is when you mention keeping the front jaw far enough forward to clear the bench. So many are not installed properly and you lose so much versatility. One thing I try to do when mounting on a sheet metal leg bench is, actually use the leg. I will try to get a mounting bolt through the leg and tighten the package up. It seems to make the leg-to-bench connection stiffer and I don't worry about the wood screws pulling out. In my shop we have had Parkers, got them forty years ago and they were old then. Some are showing wear and a butcher broke off a screw, all fixable. Happy birthday, you are a month younger than my parents would have been! Many more to you!

[@mrpete222]

That is a good idea with the table leg

[@SpringRubber]

Somehow I overlooked this mounting video when you originally posted it last year so I'm glad it showed up in my feed again. Thumbs up on the approach and instructions! Mr. Pete: you'll be happy to know that when I mounted my first vise, a 4-inch craftsman with a swivel base, I took great care to position the holes so there was clearance to hold a long item held vertically. True for when the vise jaws were parallel to the front of the bench as well as when swiveled to the side of the bench. It came in handy more than once, as I recall. Later I saw a friend's setup where he mounted the same 3-hole swivel-base as mine - but he mis-oriented the base so the vise could only be swiveled part of the way over the side of his bench. I never looked at him the same again. 🤣

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[@stanwooddave9758]

Job is not done until **Henry** say's so! Who knew, that Tubal-Cain had so many vice's. It takes a strong man, to over-come his "Mounting" vice's. I just love "double entendre's." It's safe to say Mr. Pete Loves to show off his many vice's.

[@terrystover7365]

I liked the video, as usual. Happy Birthday!

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[@Raymond.Butler]

To keep from flailing the punch butt end.

[@leeroyholloway4277]

Happy Birthday, Mr. Pete. Always a delightful and interesting presentation.

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[@josephpetito1351]

Glad to know someone else collects bolts and fasteners. Doncha hate it when you have to run to the store for one or two bolts/screws/rivets/whatever?

[@mrpete222]

Yes

[@michaelmaloney1027]

Happy Lyle. I always enjoy your videos, I learn something new every time. My a six-inch Record, Used to be made in England and sold widely in Canada. It is pity they are no longer available.

[@Garth2011]

Yes, I would paint the base plate a medium grey or match it to the vise color.

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[@oldfister7460]

Happy Birthday Sir,

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